Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets promoted

Posted by MikusR on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:50PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/17/bloomberg-reporter-challenged-big-hack-story-gets-promoted/

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Re:Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets pr... by chews on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:50PM (#21011787)

How is that not really what was possible - https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/90758/hacking/usbanywhe...

I get it, he called it a "spy-chip" but the BMC really did have exploitable attack surface.

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Re:Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets pr... by cuchulain on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:06PM (#21012878)

The difference between a purported nation-state backed subversion of supply chain and manufacturing lines, and poor security in the firmware of the BMC, is still night and day though, and still not what the original article claimed.

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Re:Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets pr... by msie on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:18PM (#21010935)

Tell Fake News, Get Promoted!

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Re:Bloomberg reporter of challenged ‘Big Hack’ story gets pr... by xrayzerone on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:24PM (#21011582)

“The Wire” in its last season thought-provokingly explores this topic. What got me was the big lie was comprised of a mesh of micro-decisions, not a big monolithic deception.

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